The Off-Center Seat: 55 Years of Myth Making

In today’s post-truth, fact-challenged world, just what, in fact, is a fact?

And what happens when the people who have direct and personal experience/memories of an event are no longer with us? Absent their first-hand accounts must we depend on second-, third- or nth-hand accounts by people who weren’t there?

With that in mind, let’s rip through the upholstery of “Lucy Loves Star Trek,” the debut episode of the recent docuseries The Center Seat, and see how close the oral tradition on display in this documentary conforms to historical documents, first-person accounts, and contemporaneous media coverage.